Attitudes and perceptions of Australian pharmacy students towards Complementary and Alternative Medicine - A pilot study

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Tiralongo, Evelin ^a   Wallis, Marianne ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL; VITAMIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMAGNETISM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARMACY STUDENT; PILOT STUDY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STUDENT ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, PHARMACY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS, NURSING; STUDENTS, PHARMACY;

EID: 40949089274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-8-2     Document Type: Article

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